Colorado § 42-6-117 - Filing of certificate.

§ 42-6-117. Filing of certificate.

(1) The director or the authorized agent shall use reasonable diligence to ascertain whether the facts stated in an application and other documents submitted to the director or the authorized agent are true. In appropriate cases, the director or authorized agent may require the applicant to furnish additional information regarding ownership of the vehicle and the right to file on behalf of the applicant a certificate of title for the vehicle. The director or the authorized agent may refuse to file a certificate of title to such vehicle if the director or the authorized agent determines that the applicant is not entitled to such certificate.

(2) No certificate of title may be filed for a vehicle required to have its vehicle identification number inspected pursuant to section 42-5-202 unless a vehicle identification number inspection form has been transmitted to the director or the authorized agent showing the number recorded from the vehicle or the number assigned to the vehicle under section 42-12-202.

(3) At the request of the title owner, lienholder, or mortgagee, a paper copy of a filed certificate of title may be issued by the director or the authorized agent.

Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2456, § 1, effective January 1, 1995. L. 2000: Entire section amended, p. 1661, § 11, effective July 1, 2001. L. 2005: Entire section amended, p. 816, § 15, effective August 8. L. 2011: (2) amended, (SB 11-031), ch. 86, p. 248, § 17, effective August 10.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 42-6-115 as it existed prior to 1994.

ANNOTATION

Annotator's note. Since § 42-6-117 is similar to § 42-6-115 as it existed prior to the 1994 amending of title 42 as enacted by SB 94-1, a relevant case construing that provision has been included in the annotations to this section.

This section empowers the director of the motor vehicle division to refuse to issue a new certificate if he determines that the applicant therefor is not entitled thereto. Codding v. Jackson, 132 Colo. 320, 287 P.2d 976 (1955).

Statutes are designed to provide a method whereby the licensing authorities may check and control the chain of title as it passes from one private purchaser to another, to the end that bogus or illegal transactions may more easily be detected. Codding v. Jackson, 132 Colo. 320, 287 P.2d 976 (1955).